What is your favoured listening position?
Posted by: seagull on 24 September 2002
Posted on: 24 September 2002 by Pete
Things like "balcony", "stalls", "mosh pit" etc., since much as I love my hi-fi, it idn't the same as live.
Pete.
Pete.
Posted on: 24 September 2002 by Richard Dane
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Originally posted by David Hobbs-Mallyon:
I was given Tom’s favoured ‘large headphone’ listening position of the chair located directly between the speakers, facing the same direction as they were firing.
David
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This takes me back to our last house, a wonderful converted coach house which had a living room with a 25ft high ceiling. I was in the lucky position to have my own "music room" also with a high ceiling but slightly smaller and sharing space with a grand piano... still, that's for another time.
The living room had just a modest hifi setup for family use - a Nad amp, Marantz CD, and a set of Monitor Audio speakers on Kudos stands. Not immediately promising but somehow it all worked beautifully. It lacked punch, for sure, but for gentler styles of music - choral in particular - it achieved amazing results far exceeding expectations. The speakers were put either side of a large "Butterfly" style sofa firing across the room and certainly provided a sensational soundstage for anybody sitting on the opposite side. It's best trick though, was when you sat between the speakers on the "Butterfly" sofa and everything seemed to snap into focus. It was the closest I've ever heard to the illusion of "being there". Of particular note was Ella Fitzgerald singing "Embraceable You" - play it to guests when they sat in the sofa and the look of disbelief was well worth a picture or two.
Frankly I think that "headphones" aren't in it. Despite being the happy user of some very fine Sennheiser HD600s, they are still "canned" and sound in the head. This was sound free of all boundaries and tonally spot on... spookily realistic.
Sadly, since moving, I've never been able to recreate the experience. However, one day we will build a new house and, guess what, I'll be copying the dimensions of that room in the coach house....
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Originally posted by David Hobbs-Mallyon:
I was given Tom’s favoured ‘large headphone’ listening position of the chair located directly between the speakers, facing the same direction as they were firing.
David
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This takes me back to our last house, a wonderful converted coach house which had a living room with a 25ft high ceiling. I was in the lucky position to have my own "music room" also with a high ceiling but slightly smaller and sharing space with a grand piano... still, that's for another time.
The living room had just a modest hifi setup for family use - a Nad amp, Marantz CD, and a set of Monitor Audio speakers on Kudos stands. Not immediately promising but somehow it all worked beautifully. It lacked punch, for sure, but for gentler styles of music - choral in particular - it achieved amazing results far exceeding expectations. The speakers were put either side of a large "Butterfly" style sofa firing across the room and certainly provided a sensational soundstage for anybody sitting on the opposite side. It's best trick though, was when you sat between the speakers on the "Butterfly" sofa and everything seemed to snap into focus. It was the closest I've ever heard to the illusion of "being there". Of particular note was Ella Fitzgerald singing "Embraceable You" - play it to guests when they sat in the sofa and the look of disbelief was well worth a picture or two.
Frankly I think that "headphones" aren't in it. Despite being the happy user of some very fine Sennheiser HD600s, they are still "canned" and sound in the head. This was sound free of all boundaries and tonally spot on... spookily realistic.
Sadly, since moving, I've never been able to recreate the experience. However, one day we will build a new house and, guess what, I'll be copying the dimensions of that room in the coach house....